Erceg Genealogy and Erceg Family History Information

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HERCEG~Duke~Hertog~TRANSLATIONS we'llcome.

Stipan Vukčić KOSAČA won the title Duke and his former country and Kingdom are named after him. Herceg is a very popular in western Herzegovina and neighboring Dalmatia. The main branch is from Vrgorskoj Krajina, where they are very numerous. Hercezi was first mentioned in the seventeenth century. Specifically,

Petar ~ Nikola & Tadija

from RAŠČANE were living as refugees in Podgora during the Turkish wars.

Jure & Nikola

HERCEGOVIĆ were mentioned in the chronicle of Brother Pavla ŠILOBADOVIĆA as noted outlaws in the fight against the Turks. Herceg originated from the ancient tribe JURIŠIĆA, which in 1565 was mentioned in Kotezi near Vrgorac. The name was listed in Ljubuski at the time the list of the Catholic Croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina was done in 1742 and 1768, where in 1785 the name has appeared in several villages of the region. In the late nineteenth century in Klobuk are three families: Cvitana HERCEG, and Grge Herceg Marko Herceg. Only one family was enrolled in Osoje. In fact, in 1899 Stipan son Marko Herceg from Osoje and Mande Rasić was baptized. Last name is inscribed: Herceg and Erceg. In 1880, the son of Mijo Cvitana Herceg from Šiljevišta and Mare Misetić was baptized. Cvitan with Mara had four more children: Mara, Luka, Ana and Joze. After Marine Cvitan married Jozo Petrović and had two children: Stojan in 1898, and Mija - there is a note that Cvitan Erceg is from Šiljevišta. Also mentioned are the family of Grge Herceg and Vide Barbaric from Šiljevišta who had four children: Iva (1886), Mate (1890), Vladimir (1893) and Marko (1899). In the last entry is written that Grgo Herceg was from Jablanica.

The surname ERCEG is usually worn by Croats, mostly from around Vrgorac, according to some sources from Mandaline near Šibenik. Rarely are they Serbs (near Zadar). In the past one hundred years the highest proportion were born in Slivnu near Sibenik, near Veliki Prologu near Vrgorac and Raščane near Vrgorac places in which every fourth citizen’s surname is Erceg. In Croatia today there are about three thousand Erceg in about seven hundred households (124 surname by number). Middle of last century there were approximately two thousand, and their number is still almost doubled.